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ERYSIPELAS. 



The great thing is, to keep down the general fever. Do this 

 from first to last, both night and day, and all goes on well. The 

 local applications (wet cloths), repeated often and suited to the 

 patient's comfort, are also useful. Be especially careful to keep 

 the head cool; pour water upon it as much and as often as nec- 

 essary, and use wet towels; keep the feet warm. Water drinking, 

 clysters and spare diet when the appetite comes, are also to be 

 thought of. Bathe the patient as often during the night as may 

 be necessary to give him sleep. No disease requires a more 

 prompt treatment than erysipelas of a malignant type. So that 

 the feet are kept warm, it is nearly impossible to do too much. 

 Allow of no remedy other than water, without the advice of a 

 good homeopathic physician. 



SMALL-POX. 



We are to treat small-pox on the same general principle 

 as all severe inflammations, namely, to keep the fever in check from 

 the beginning to the end of the disease. As to how much water 

 drinking, how many baths, wet sheets, compresses and bandages, 

 and what the -temperature of the water, all this must vary according 

 to the nature, severity, and other circumstances connected with the 

 case, i No other treatment can at all compare with this for comfort, 

 in so desperate a disorder. 



MEASLES. 



Treatment First, we are to keep down the general fever, as 

 in all inflammatory diseases. In accomplishing this we do not send 

 the eruption in, but aid nature in bringing it out. A single tepid 

 bath, a pack, or a tepid bath, if the patient is not very weak, will 

 often bring the rash upon the surface as by magic, while all the 

 other symptoms are relieved in a remarkable manner. We use then 

 the wet pack, and tepid or cold ablutions each one or all of these 

 as may be convenient, or as the case may require. 



EPILEPSY. 



Cold affusion upon the head, in the manner recommended in 

 hysteria, is highly useful. We know that in such cases there is 

 turgescence ana too great fullness of the blood vessels in the brain. 

 Cold, by its constrictive effects drives away the superabundance of 

 blood, thus moderating and shortening the fit. The effect of cold 

 on the nervous system in these cases is also beneficial ; it rouses the 

 dormant powers of the system, and aids in preventing the debility 

 that follows such attacks. 



